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NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS® (NBME®)

Serving the Public Through Evaluation of Healthcare Professionals Worldwide

OVERVIEW OF NBME SERVICES AND ASSESSMENTS FOR MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS Agata P. Butler, PhD Vice President, NBME

NBME Subject Exam Program Serve the assessment needs of medical schools by providing highquality assessment tools as well as information and assistance to medical educators

NBME Subject Tests: Basic Science Exams          

Gross Anatomy (+/-Embryology) Histology & Cell Biology Biochemistry Physiology (+/- Neurophysiology) Neuroscience (+/- Neuropath, Neuropharm) Behavioral Sciences Microbiology (+/- Immunology) Pharmacology Pathology Introduction to Clinical Diagnosis

NBME Subject Tests: Clinical Science Exams Core Clerkship Exams  Ambulatory Medicine  Family Medicine (modular)  Internal Medicine  Clinical Neurology  Obstetrics & Gynecology  Pediatrics  Psychiatry  Surgery

NBME Subject Tests: Clinical Science Exams Advanced Clinical Exams    

Internal Medicine (2009) Surgery (2010) Pediatrics (2011) Emergency Medicine (2013)

NBME Subject Tests: Comprehensive Exams





Comprehensive Basic Science Examination Comprehensive Clinical Science Examination

NBME Subject Exam Program 

Used by many medical schools as end-ofcourse and end-of-clerkship exams  National

norms and descriptive information of students at the same stage of training

 Multiple

parallel forms of exam available  Test scores are equated and can be directly compared over time

NBME Subject Exam Program  High-quality,

USMLE-like items that have been carefully reviewed and pretested  Items written by a "national faculty" (USMLE Test Committees)  Gives students practice for USMLE

Performance Profiles Report performance profiles to schools for individual examinees taking the comprehensive subject exams, clinical science exams, and web-based basic science exams.

Student  Performance  Profile 

Look-up Table Provide a look-up table for schools and students to use as a benchmark on passing USMLE (comparable score)

A table provides approximate performance equivalents for USMLE Step 1, making it possible to translate the CBSE score to the scale used for USMLE Step 1.

Web-Based Subject Exams 

Transitioned subject tests from a paper format to web-based platform Enhance security  Streamline score reporting  Provide new opportunities for growth 

NBME provides test administration software that 

provides a mechanism for the school to use laptop and/or desktop computers



“locks” the browser, preventing examinees from copying screens or communicating exam content



enables the Proctor to open exam access, monitor examinee progress and control other aspects of the test administration

New Directions in 2012 

NBME subject examinations are now available at Prometric Test Centers 

Initially limited to the comprehensive and clinical science subject tests

Future Directions  

Include pretest items in subject tests Include multimedia in items 



Pilot modular tests

Collaborate with schools and faculty in developing new and innovative item types

Customized Assessment Services

Faculty members can access the NBME item bank to design an assessment to fit their needs

Customized Assessment Services: Uses 

In-course tests 



End-of-course tests  



Individual discipline-based courses Individual organ-system blocks

Integrated, tests 



Mid-term exams

End-of-semester/block exams

Basic science progress tests

NBME Self-Assessment Services Self-assessment services provided directly to students Comprehensive Basic Science (Step 1) Comprehensive Clinical Science (Step 2 CK) Comprehensive Clinical Medicine (Step 3 MCQ)

NBME Self-Assessment Services Designed to reflect the format and content coverage of USMLE  Provided as a service to students and can be taken via the web at any time and from any location that the examinee chooses 

CBSSA: Sample Performance Profile

A table provides approximate performance equivalents for USMLE Step 1, making it possible to translate the CBSSA score to the scale used for USMLE Step 1.

Recent Research Publication on NSAS 

12,224 U.S. and Canadian medical students Completed an English version of the CBSSA exam between 12/06 and 12/08  Took the exam under standard-paced conditions  First Step 1 attempt was on or before 11/17/09. 





The most recent CBSSA prior to their first Step 1 attempt and first Step 1 score was used CBSSA performance is strongly related to Step 1 performance (67 – 69% of variance in Step 1 scores explained by CBSSA)

Research Publications on NSAS 



Using the NBME Self-Assessments to Predict Performance on USMLE Step 1 and Step 2: Impact of Test Administration Conditions. Academic Medicine. Vol. 70. No. 10. October/Supplement 2004. Relationship Between Performance on the NBME Comprehensive Basic Sciences Self-Assessment and USMLE Step 1 for US and Canadian Medical School Students. Academic Medicine. 85(10):S98-S101, October 2010.

Content Feedback

Longitudinal Performance Profile Performance profile graphically displays the relative strengths and weaknesses in general content areas as horizontal bars  Enhance feedback to display the performance bar for each content area vertically with each column (bar) of the report identified to show progress over multiple testing sessions 

Longitudinal Performance Profile

New: Clinical Science Mastery Series 



New self-assessments for the clinical science subject examinations Two, 50-item forms for each of the following: Clinical Neurology Obstetrics/Gynecology Psychiatry

Medicine Pediatrics Surgery

Content Feedback for Psychiatry Self-Assessment

A table provides approximate performance equivalents for the Medicine Subject Test, making it possible to translate the selfassessment score to the scale used for the Medicine Subject Test.

Future Directions: Enhance Feedback for Students 





Enhance feedback regarding timing and pacing for the self-assessments Enhance score reports with more specific feedback about the items Provide opportunity for students to review the questions and answers after the test for customized assessments

To learn more about the National Board of Medical Examiners, visit us at www.nbme.org

Performance on Most Recent CBSSA, First Step 1, and Pass/Fail Outcomes CBSSA

Group

N

Study Sample

12,224

All US/Canadian Examinees

57,329

Step 1

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

% Passing

456

109

225

21

96.5%

221

23

93.1%

CBSSA and Step 1 Performance by Number of CBSSA Takes CBSSA Attempts 1

N 6489

Percent of Study Sample 53%

2

3546

3

CBSSA Score Mean SD

Step 1 Score

438

110

Mean 224

SD 21

29%

466

103

225

21

1402

12%

484

105

227

21

4

602

5%

503

108

230

21

5

113

1%

525

115

232

23

6

65

<1%

550

94

236

19

Model Summary Model R

R Square

Adjusted R Square

Std. Error of the Estimate

1

.819(a)

.671

.671

12.140

2

.828(b)

.685

.685

11.875

3

.831 (c)

.691

.691

11.762

a. Predictors: (Constant), LAST_CBSSA_BF_STEP1 b. Predictors: (Constant), LAST_CBSSA_BF_STEP1, NUM_DAYS _BET_STEP1 c. Predictors: (Constant), LAST_CBSSA_BF_STEP1, NUM_DAYS__STEP1, NUM_CBSSA_TAKES_BF_STEP1

Stepwise Multiple Regression  

Dependent variable: First Step 1 score Independent variables:  Most

recent CBSSA before first Step 1 attempt  Number of days between most recent CBSSA and first Step 1 attempt  Mean

= 14 days  Median = 8 days  Mode = 7 days  Number

of CBSSA takes before first Step 1